Immigration

There appear to be numerous theories floating around online that Henry came to Plymouth in the Fortune 1624[1], or in the Anne [2], perhaps because his brother John came on the Mayflower in 1620. Great Migration finds no records of his presence before 1632 and does not bother to address such rumors.

Live in New England

Henry appears on the 1633 list of freeman ahead of those made freeman on 1 Jan 1632/3.

Henry was a Quaker and got into trouble with the law several times as a result. He was fined in 1657 for entertaining a Quaker meeting at his house, and in 1659 was disenfranchised for being an "abettor and entertainer of Quakers."[6]

In 1660, he was charged with entertaining another man's wife in his house, and for permitting a Quaker meeting in his house and entertaining a foreign Quaker. He denied the first charge, and the court noted that the evidence "did not appeer to make it out," but he was convicted on the Quaker charges. Undeterred, five months later on 2 October 1660 he was fined £4 for twice having Quaker meetings at his house.[7]

Henry served on juries occasionally before he was disenfranchised, but the only office he held after that was highway surveyor for Duxbury.[8]

He owned land in Dartmouth in 1652; was one of the twenty-seven purchasers of what is now Freetown, Mass., and finally ended his days in the Duxbury homestead.[9]